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...murders of police would seem like ideal grist for opportunistic news organizations. So why are some parts of the Mexican press staying silent during the recent savage fighting between drug cartels? Because they themselves are in the crosshairs. The most recent victim was the newspaper Cambio Sonora, published in Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora. Violence--including two grenade attacks on its offices-- caused the newspaper to announce on May 24 that it was temporarily shutting down. Seven journalists have been murdered in Mexico since October, mostly in retaliation for reporting on the drug cartels. And two television...
P.A.N. officials charged the ruling party with stuffing ballots and outright altering of the election totals. P.A.N. supporters also faced obstacles as they tried to vote. In the Sonora capital, Hermosillo, where P.A.N. won a 1982 municipal election, the number of polling stations was reduced. In the town of Guaymas, 100 of 180 P.A.N. poll watchers were refused certification. In other places, unidentified men carried off the ballot boxes long before the election was over...
...Sept. 11, the Customs Service has been on a Level One alert--the most rigorous inspection regimen and one that, in the first days after the attacks, caused 25-mile, 16-hour-long backups at the Ambassador Bridge. Those delays shut down auto assembly lines from Flint, Mich., to Hermosillo, Mexico--and put Anderson and his 45 inspectors under relentless pressure to keep the commerce flowing while letting neither terrorists nor weapons of mass destruction across the border...
Kelly is on of the 10 editors to receive fellowships. Others include Fannie Flono of The Charlotte Observer; Rhef Beyoung-Gyu of The Hankook Ilbo in Seoul, Korea; Pippa Green of The Sunday Independent in Johannesburg, South Africa; Martin Holguin of El Imparcial in Hermosillo, Mexico; Malou Mangahas of The Manila Times; Ilka Piepgras of the Berliner Zeitung; Masaru Soma of The Sankei Shimbum in Sendai, Japan; Dan Stoica of Radio Romana in Bucharest, and Sun Yu of China Environment News in Beijing...
...industrial wages in Mexico that are roughly one-sixth of those in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. auto industry alone could lose thousands of positions. Mexican workers earning less than $20 a day are already building hundreds of thousands of Ford Mercury Tracers and Buick Centuries in Hermosillo and Ramos Arizpe and shipping them north. Under the pact, the Big Three's presence south of the border will surely grow in the next few years...